Francesco Maria Sforza Pallavicino

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Cardinal Pallavicino

Francesco Maria Sforza Pallavicino SJ (also Pietro Sforza Pallavicino ; born November 28, 1607 in Rome , † June 5, 1667 ibid) was an Italian theologian and cardinal .

Life

He came from the Pallavicini branch of Parma and was the son of the marchese Alessandro Pallavicini and his wife Francesca Sforza. The first name Sforza goes back to Sforza Pallavicino , General of the Republic of Venice, who adopted Alessandro Pallavicini and bequeathed all goods and titles to him. As the eldest son, Francesco Maria Sforza Pallavicino renounced his title of nobility and became a priest . He studied at the Collegio Romano of the Jesuits in Rome, where he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1625 and doctor theologiae in 1628 . Under the pontificate of Urban VIII , he entered the service of the Curia as a trainee lawyer at the Courts of Justice of the Apostolic Signature . In 1629 Pallavicino became a member of the Accademia dei Lincei . He was friends with Giovanni Ciampoli , the secretary of the Breven, and with Fabio Chigi, the later Pope Alexander VII. When his friend Ciampoli fell out of favor with Urban VIII in 1632, Pallavicino had to leave Rome. He was governor of Jesi, and later of Orvieto and Camerino. On June 21, 1637 - contrary to his father's wish - he entered the Society of Jesus . From 1639 to 1644 he was professor of philosophy at the Collegio Romano and from 1644 to 1652 professor of theology there. Pallavicino was a member of the commission that was supposed to examine the writings of the Bishop of Ypres Cornelius Jansen , he refused to condemn Jansenism as heresy . Through the publication of numerous poetic, literary, theological and ecclesiastical history books - especially about the Council of Trent - he gained a high reputation among scholars in Rome.

Pope Alexander VII created Francesco Maria Sforza Pallavicino in the consistory of April 9, 1657 as cardinal in pectore and made this public in the consistory of November 10, 1659. He received the red hat and the titular church of San Salvatore in Lauro on December 6, 1660. In 1661 he became a member of the Congregation of the Roman and General Inquisition . He was also the confessor of Pope Alexander VII.

Francesco Maria Sforza Pallavicino died shortly after Alexander VII during the Sedis vacancy on June 5, 1667 at around 5.30 a.m. in his quarters in the Jesuit house near Sant'Andrea al Quirinale in Rome. He was buried in Sant'Andrea al Quirinale .

Works (selection)

  • Istoria del Concilio di Trento ove insieme rifiutasi con autorevoli testimonianze un'Istoria falsa divulgata sull'istesso argomento da Pietro Soave Polano. (Rome 1656–1657)
  • Ars christianae perfectionis Sforzae Pallavicinie, tribus libris lingua italica. (1677)
  • Sfortiae Pallavicini e Societate Jesu SRE Cardinalis tractatus de stylo et dialogo in quo dum didascalicae scriptionis forma quaeritur. (1678)

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SURNAME Pallavicino, Francesco Maria Sforza
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pallavicino, Pietro Sforza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian theologian and cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1607
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1667
Place of death Rome